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Green Energy@slrpnk.net•How blue California and red Texas became green powerhouses | Despite wildly different approaches, both states are seeing massive growth in solar and wind energy.
5·21 hours agoYeah, commercial-scale solar in the US tends to be installed on a mount allowing a single axis of rotation. This lets the owners rotate it into a vertical position when a hailstorm approaches, sharply reducing the amount of damage.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Bezos' $10 billion climate charity has a new mission: promoting AI26·24 hours agoHe only created the Bezos Earth fund because of employee organizing. It was a way to buy off the environmental nonprofits so that he was less likely to face a union
silence7@slrpnk.netOPtoNew York Times gift articles@sopuli.xyz•Judge Orders Prosecutors to Testify
4·2 days agoBasically, the NJ District Attorney’s office (federal) is being run in a way that’s illegal, operating incompetently as a result, and they seem to have ignored the judge’s instruction to go fix it. So he’s calling the prosecutors in to testify about what their reporting chain actually is.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Trump Officials Weigh New $1 Billion Deal to Stop Offshore Wind Farms | Proposed settlements would block wind farms off New York State and North Carolina, according to documents reviewed by the NYT3·2 days agoThe first version of it was that they tried saying there was a super-secret national concern that they couldn’t tell anybody about which meant that they had to stop already-approved wind farms. Buying off the companies that paid for permission ton install turbines is their second approach.
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Inactivity in a warming world could spur hundreds of thousands of deaths3·2 days agoI don’t think this is the only mechanism by which global warming kills
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Inactivity in a warming world could spur hundreds of thousands of deaths6·2 days agoIt’s the latter who will die mostly; the well-off largely install air conditioning.
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politics @lemmy.world•University of Florida moves to deactivate College Republicans after report of antisemitic behavior
3·2 days agoProbably because the Republicans have been trying to use antisemitism as a cudgel to attack the left, so this makes them look bad right now
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Climate@slrpnk.net•Iran war should trigger faster exit from fossil fuel dependence, UN climate chief says2·2 days agoThe EU sharply cut their fossil methane use in response to that
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars | The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price.
1·4 days agoYeah, the oil industry owners are salivating over the potential war profits
Problem is that the Republican party is a patronage machine heavily funded by the billionaires who own the oil industry, so a tax like that won’t pass while they hold power
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News@lemmy.world•A Refugee Died After Border Patrol Left Him at a Cafe. Fear Followed.
13·4 days agoWelcome to the New York Times. They do a lot of good journalism, but have a different person from the one who wrote the article write the headline, precisely to enable this kind of thing.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Well, That’s One Way to Sell Americans on Electric Cars | The U.S. has been wary of EVs. As the cost of gas soars, we’re now paying the price.
1·4 days agoThat’s radical lefty stuff. You see people like Rep. Sean Casten talking that way but not anybody who wants to be seen as “moderate.”
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News@lemmy.world•Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas
6·5 days agoNope.
A few have faced professional consequences, but that’s it
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News@lemmy.world•Vineyard Wind, country's first large-scale offshore wind project, finishes construction
3·5 days agoYeah, the oil and gas industry paid a billion-dollar bribe to block as much offshore wind as possible though; wind farms not under construction when Trump took power probably will not be built any time soon
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News@lemmy.world•Vineyard Wind, country's first large-scale offshore wind project, finishes construction
2·5 days agoIf the above is not snark: then no, they don’t.












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